in this research, the effect of bubble surface area flux, sb, and particle size on flotation rate constant, k, of pyrite (fes2) particles was studied using bubble-particle interactions. the bubble-particle collision, attachment and detachment efficiencies were calculated under different flow regimes. the k increased with increase in the collision efficiency and decrease in the detachment effici...

OBJECT ORIENTED 3D DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF FLOW OF GRANULAR MATERIAL THROUGH HOPPER Development of object oriented 3D dynamic simulation of the particle is considered. This code is based on the soft sphere model dealing with both normal force , tangential force and the friction. The development of such a model and the code is motivated by the need to understand the flow patterns of granular mater...

A description of the steps taken to produce a massively parallel code for particle suspension problems using the lattice Boltzmann method is presented. A number of benchmarks based on a binary fluid lattice Boltzmann model are used to assess the performance of the code in terms of the computational overhead required for the particle problem compared with the fluid-only problem, and for the scal...

Biomass feedstocks are densified to facilitate easy handling, transportation and storage. Densification is a process of transforming loose biomass into highly densified form by the application of mechanical pressure. The mechanism involved in the process of densification is difficult to understand from existing information. A comprehensive understanding of the densification process for biomass ...

Gas-particle flows are used in many industrial applications in the energy, oil and gas fields, such as coal gasification, production of light hydrocarbons by fluid catalytic cracking, catalytic combustion and different treatments aiming to reduce or eliminate pollutants. The particle phase of a gas-particle flow is described by analogy to a granular gas, by finding an approximate solution of th...

An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method is used to establish a concise and particularly accurate solution to the problem of plane Couette flow for a binary gas mixture described by the McCormack kinetic model. The solution yields, for the general sspecular-diffused case of Maxwell boundary conditions for each of the two species, the velocity, heat-flow, and shear-stress profiles ...

In this paper, we use the parallel open source code parallelSPHysics based on the weakly compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) approach to study a spillway flow over stepped stairs. SPH is a robust mesh-free particle modelling technique and has great potential in treating the free surfaces in spillway hydraulics. A laboratory experiment is carried out for the different flow disch...

A variety of experimental techniques for the generation of subsonic/supersonic dust fluid flows and means of measuring such flow velocities are presented. The experiments have been carried out in a Π-shaped dusty plasma experimental device with micron size kaolin/ melamine formaldehyde particles embedded in a background of argon plasma created by a direct current glow discharge. A stationary du...

An unsteady sampling routine for a general parallel direct simulation Monte Carlo method called PDSC is introduced, allowing the simulation of time-dependent flow problems in the near continuum range. A post-processing procedure called DSMC rapid ensemble averaging method (DREAM) is developed to improve the statistical scatter in the results while minimising both memory and simulation time. Thi...